Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsOsamu Sasaoka, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Akinori Yokota
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsOsamu Sasaoka, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Akinori Yokota
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An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a heating unit including a heating element, and a heating rotary member, a pressurizing rotary member configured to form, together with the heating unit, a fixing nip, a sheet discharge unit including a rotary member disposed downstream of the fixing nip in a sheet conveyance direction and configured to abut on the sheet, the sheet discharge unit discharging the sheet to an outside of the image forming apparatus, a stacking unit configured to stack the sheet discharged by the sheet discharge unit, a fan configured to blow air, and a duct configured to discharge the air sent by the fan toward the stacking unit. The rotary member is disposed such that at least a part of the rotary member enters an inside of the duct.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
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